{"id":1373,"date":"2019-04-08T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2023-12-01T20:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:15:01","slug":"lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-leaps-to-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Leaps to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus, Billie Eilish earns first her top 10 with &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; from her first Billboard 200 No. 1 album, &#8220;When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X blasts from No. 15 to No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;with his debut hit and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8504234\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-five-burning-questions\">viral smash<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;Old Town Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>&nbsp;scores her first Hot 100 top 10, as &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; bounds onto the chart at No. 7. The song is her from <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">album<\/g>&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8505964\/billie-eilishs-when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go-debuts-at\">launches as her first No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;7 Rings,&#8221; which falls to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after eight weeks at No. 1, becomes her first leader on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated April 13), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; becomes the 1,086th No. 1 in the Hot 100&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8468122\/hot-100-turns-60-chubby-checker-the-twist-the-beatles\">60-year history<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a look at highlights of the list&#8217;s new leader by Atlanta native Lil Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill; he was born April 9, 1999, and, thus, celebrates his 20th birthday tomorrow with a host of chart honors to unwrap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 in streaming:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Road&#8221; roars to No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, from No. 7, up 60% to 46.6 million U.S. streams in the week ending April 4, according to Nielsen Music. The song wins the Hot 100&#8217;s top Streaming Gainer award for a third consecutive week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; also rises 11-3 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>, surging by 83% to 22,000 downloads sold in the week ending April 4, as it claims top Sales Gainer honors for the second time in three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song additionally gains by 190% to 11.9 million all-format audience impressions in the week ending April 7, as it continues to approach the Radio Songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Debut &#8216;Moves&#8217;:<\/strong>&nbsp;While Lil Nas X is the first artist to take an initial Hot 100 entry to No. 1 since Bradley Cooper just five weeks earlier, thanks to Cooper&#8217;s duet &#8220;Shallow&#8221; with Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X is the first artist unaccompanied by another act to top the Hot 100 on a first try since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\">Cardi B<\/a>, whose &#8220;Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)&#8221; spent three weeks at No. 1 in October 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X is the first male artist (in a lead role) to lead the Hot 100 in a first visit since <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">Desiigner<\/g> took &#8220;Panda&#8221; to the top for two weeks in May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15 to 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Road&#8221; makes the second-biggest jump to No. 1 on the Hot 100 this year.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8500866\/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-shallow-hot-100-number-one\">&#8220;Shallow&#8221; soared 21-1<\/a>&nbsp;following its win for best original song at the 91st Academy Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quick &#8216;Road&#8217; to No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Road&#8221; reaches No. 1 on the Hot 100 in just its sixth week on the chart. While the song it replaces at the summit, Grande&#8217;s &#8220;7 Rings,&#8221; debuted at No. 1, &#8220;Road&#8221; marks the fastest flight to No. 1 for an artist&#8217;s debut entry (in a lead role) since Zayn&#8217;s &#8220;Pillowtalk&#8221; opened on top in February 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Zayn was already known as a former member of powerhouse boy band One Direction, Lil Nas X makes the swiftest ascent to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for an act with no prior Hot 100 history at all since Baauer blasted in at the top spot with his five-week leader &#8220;Harlem Shake&#8221; in March 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Columbia in command:<\/strong>&nbsp;After buzz began building for &#8220;Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8502868\/lil-nas-x-signs-columbia-records\">signed with Columbia Records<\/a>. Now, the label boasts its first Hot 100 No. 1 since The Chainsmokers&#8217; &#8220;Closer,&#8221; featuring Halsey, reigned for 12 weeks from September through November 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; is the first debut Hot 100 No. 1 for an artist on Columbia since OMI&#8217;s &#8220;Cheerleader&#8221; stood atop the chart&#8217;s pyramid for six weeks in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NIN at No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;As &#8220;Road&#8221; samples Nine Inch Nails&#8217; track &#8220;34 Ghost IV,&#8221; from the industrial rock band&#8217;s 2008 album&nbsp;<em>Ghosts I\u2013IV<\/em>, NIN&#8217;s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross sport co-writing and co-producing credit on &#8220;Road.&#8221; (Lil Nas X also earns a writing credit, while YoungKio additionally claims producer credit.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reznor and Ross make their first trip to No. 1 on the Hot 100 as writers and producers. As a band, NIN hit a No. 17 Hot 100 high in August 1999 with &#8220;The Day the World Went Away&#8221; (written and co-produced by Reznor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 hip-hop &amp; rap:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Road&#8221; concurrently becomes Lil Nas X&#8217;s first No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts, leaping from No. 7 on each list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Road&#8217; ahead:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Road&#8221; should benefit on next week&#8217;s charts (dated April 20) thanks its new remix, featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billy-ray-cyrus\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8505789\/lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-remix\">released Friday, April 5<\/a>; data for the remix&#8217;s first full tracking week will feed next week&#8217;s tallies, which will reflect the streaming and sales week of April 5-11 (with both the remix and original version counting toward the song&#8217;s singular chart placement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s former one-week Hot 100 leader &#8220;Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),&#8221; with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/swae-lee\">Swae Lee<\/a>, rebounds 3-2 and Grande&#8217;s &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; descends to No. 3 after eight weeks at No. 1, her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8504942\/ariana-grande-7-rings-number-one-hot-100-eight-weeks\">career-best rule<\/a>&nbsp;among her two toppers; &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; led for seven weeks beginning in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; becomes Grande&#8217;s first No. 1 on Radio Songs, rising from No. 2 despite a 3% percent dip to 88.7 million in audience. Grande previously reached a No. 2 high on the chart with &#8220;Problem,&#8221; featuring Iggy Azalea, in 2014 (and sent five subsequent singles to No. 3, including &#8220;Next&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Malone&#8217;s solo single &#8220;Wow.&#8221; drops to No. 4 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 peak;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>&#8216;s former two-week No. 1 &#8220;Without Me&#8221; falls 4-5; and Cardi B and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bruno-mars\">Bruno Mars<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Please Me&#8221; retreats 5-6 after reaching No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billie Eilish notches her first Hot 100 top 10, as &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; vaults onto the chart at No. 7. The song is her from album&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>, which arrives as her first Billboard 200 No. 1. She outdoes her prior best Hot 100 rank, as fellow&nbsp;<em>Asleep<\/em>&nbsp;song &#8220;Bury a Friend&#8221; reached No. 14 in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the official video for &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8504741\/billie-eilish-bad-guy-video\">premiered March 29<\/a>, the song starts at No. 2 on Streaming Songs with 34.7 million U.S. streams. On Digital Song Sales, the track enters at No. 7 (16,000 sold).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; is one of five songs that Eilish places in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 40, joined by &#8220;Friend&#8221; (41-25); current pop radio single &#8220;When the Party&#8217;s Over&#8221; (a re-entry at No. 29, a new high); &#8220;Wish You Were Gay&#8221; (84-31); and &#8220;Xanny&#8221; (new at No. 35). (She had previously appeared in the top 40 only with &#8220;Friend.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jonas-brothers\">Jonas Brothers<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Sucker,&#8221; which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8501890\/jonas-brothers-sucker-no-1-hot-100\">started as the trio&#8217;s first No. 1 on the March 16-dated Hot 100<\/a>, lifts 9-8, while achieving top Airplay Gainer honors for a fourth week. The track becomes the group&#8217;s first Radio Songs top 10, pushing 12-8 (69 million, up 24%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/marshmello\">Marshmello<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bastille\">Bastille<\/a>&#8216;s No. 2 Hot 100 hit &#8220;Happier&#8221; backtracks 6-9, while ruling the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/dance-electronic-songs\">Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 29th week, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-cole\">J. Cole<\/a>&#8216;s No. 4-peaking Hot 100 hit &#8220;Middle Child&#8221; slips 7-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chart-beat\/id1082747004?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Chart Beat Podcast<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pop-shop-podcast\/id720291560?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Shop Podcast<\/a>&nbsp;and follow&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\">@billboard<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardcharts\" target=\"_blank\">@billboardcharts<\/a>. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (April 9), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;magazine is on sale Friday (April 12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1373\" data-postid=\"1373\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1373 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Billie Eilish earns first her top 10 with &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; from her first Billboard 200 No. 1 album, &#8220;When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?&#8221; Lil Nas X blasts from No. 15 to No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;with his debut hit and&nbsp;viral smash&nbsp;&#8220;Old Town Road.&#8221; Plus,&nbsp;Billie Eilish&nbsp;scores her first Hot 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lil-Nas-X-press-photo-2019-billboard-1548.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}